Your computer will never crash at 12am on a Friday when you could care less if it stopped working. It will most likely crash at the most critical moment. Like right before the big meeting with your best client. Needless to say, It will be extremely frustrating!
While solving computer problems are very complex, here are some quick troubleshooting steps that will prevent common problems in your computer:
1. If you don’t know what you are doing, please, please, please see a professional. You can make the problem worse if you delete or change something you weren’t supposed to touch. Computer Solutions3 is a great company to call when you are having any kind of computer issues : )
2. Save your current work. Before you walk away from the computer to grab that sandwich, save the work you just did. This may just be the day that your computer decides to shut down for no apparent reason.
3. Backup critical data. If your hard drive crashes and you can’t get your computer to start back up, what will you do?! Well you can just restore all of your data if only you had a backup….
4. Reboot your computer. Contrary to popular belief, rebooting is actually a good thing. Sometimes one command of hundreds that your computer executes per second can cause corrupted memory or other temporary unexplainable problems. Rebooting will clear out the little monsters and refresh your computer.
5. Install drivers and updates. If it seems like one of your programs or hardware devices is not running smoothly, check the manufacturer’s website for updates. As users discover problems, the manufacturers release updates to fix these newly discovered issues.
6. Check your computer for viruses. Checking your computer often for viruses will ensure that you have the new viruses that are created completely removed from your computer. Also, scan for adware, spyware, or any other malware products.
7. Get rid of junk. You will be surprised at how much junk files you can collect on your computer. Trash any documents, programs, backups, pictures or anything else that is of no use for you. And like I said before, make sure you know what it is before you start deleting.
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Author: Flor Castillo
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